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[DaGaffer]

EU may accept 12-month work visas for ‘youth experience’ scheme with UK

Exclusive: Post-Brexit plan would allow British and European 18- to 30-year-olds to travel and work freely

www.theguardian.com

I hope not. Ageist.

We do the same thing with Australia and it's better than nothing, and in truth most people migrating at 30+ will have a job/sponsor anyway.

 

[Embattle]

LInky?

Edit: 3rd party will make 'em and they'll work with google home...

Google discontinues Nest Protect smoke alarm and Nest x Yale lock

Google continues backing away from smart home hardware.

arstechnica.com

and the recent one on thermostats:

Google announces 1st and 2nd gen Nest Thermostats will lose support in October 2025

Affected units will work locally, but smart features will shut down in October.

arstechnica.com

 

[Raven]

The internet of shit. Disposable phones, disposable cars and tech with designed obsolescence. It all looked so cool on Tomorrow's World.

 

[Scouse]

We do the same thing with Australia and it's better than nothing, and in truth most people migrating at 30+ will have a job/sponsor anyway.

My objection is that for most of us it's still nothing.

We all should be able to work anywhere we like.

 

[Gwadien]

My objection is that for most of us it's still nothing.

We all should be able to work anywhere we like.

We could, in the EU.

But then people said lots of lies and people believed said lies so we can't.

Are you seriously saying 'if I can't, I don't think anybody should'?

 

[DaGaffer]

My objection is that for most of us it's still nothing.

We all should be able to work anywhere we like.

Welcome to planet Earth. Where the fuck have you been?

I'm not going to begrudge the under-30s having something a bunch of old fucks voted away on their behalf. Oh wait, I can work in the EU. Hahahahahahahaha haha!

 

[Scouse]

Welcome to planet Earth. Where the fuck have you been?

I'm not going to begrudge the under-30s having something a bunch of old fucks voted away on their behalf. Oh wait, I can work in the EU. Hahahahahahahaha haha!

Nah. I never voted for cuntery. In fact I'm on record on this very site saying I think the idea of countries is just a wanky enabler for this shit.

But fuck being caught up preferentially based on age. All or none of us.

Solidarity brothers.

 

[DaGaffer]

Back from Japan. Don't want to be back from Japan

 

[Scouse]

Back from Japan. Don't want to be back from Japan

What were your highlights m8?

 

[Scouse]

Been told 3 days a week in the office - or the job'll go to China.

Sheffield's 3.5hrs away. I might be able to get into an office in Chester. About an hour and fifteen. So 2.5 wasted hours, a lot of carbon and petrol, to sit in an office with nobody I know to sit on zoom calls.

The equivalent of 47 working days, or 15 actual days a year sat in my car doing fuck all.

What a joke.

Well. I'm going to work to rule and be completely unavailable outside office hours.

 

[SilverHood]

Been told 3 days a week in the office - or the job'll go to China.

Sheffield's 3.5hrs away. I might be able to get into an office in Chester. About an hour and fifteen. So 2.5 wasted hours, a lot of carbon and petrol, to sit in an office with nobody I know to sit on zoom calls.

The equivalent of 47 working days, or 15 actual days a year sat in my car doing fuck all.

What a joke.

Well. I'm going to work to rule and be completely unavailable outside office hours.

What I've seen, and my friends have seen, is that a lot of people bake the commute into their working hours now. So let's say you were normally doing 7AM to 7PM from home. You're now doing 9-4 in the office. If you commute at odd hours to cut the travel time down, it could look like 8-3 or 7-2 instead, with a quick login once you got online to ensure nothing critical was missed. You'd be surprised how reasonable people are regarding long commutes that have been forced on their coworkers or immediate subordinates.

 

[Scouse]

Yeah @SilverHood. I'll try what I can like that. But it might be that if a lot of people do that they'll want 8 hours in the office. Not sure how it'll pan out.

It's all so fucking stupid. I hear it's the government leaning on the banks to get people back into the office. We're ditching Canary Wharf - and that's a fuck of a lot of people not spending money in the local area. Meh. It's all so pointless.

If town centres will die - let them. It's called progress.

 

[DaGaffer]

What were your highlights m8?

Loads. Looking at some of the stuff they were building when we were still dealing with hairy-arsed vikings. Tokyo was amazing, even just getting around was so easy. People were great, food was incredible (I didn't have single bad meal, from tiny Ichibana to a fancy 10 course meal in a private dining room), Nintendo World at Universal studios. A room with a balcony and hot bath in Hakone (and taking a cable car over an active volcano). Bullet trains, Mount Fuji.

Only negative was not going to the Osaka Expo because their ticketing system was so retarded it never delivered any tickets (the whole of Reddit and every travel site is full of complaints). One thing the Japanese fucking suck at is web and app UX. Oh, and tourists being dicks; unfortunately a few instances of that.

 

[Scouse]

POIDH

 

[Embattle]

I don't do art, so perhaps it is me, but £42.5m for this:

Rothko: Child damages painting worth up to €50m in Netherlands

It is not yet clear who will be held responsible for the cost of repairing Rothko's Grey, Orange on Maroon, No. 8.

www.bbc.co.uk

Although he has more valuable paintings (£140m+) such as:

No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Scouse]

Combination of people liking things, and having so much cash that 40 million quid is just chicken feed.

 

[Overdriven]

Had a mains water leak (Under the stopcock in our kitchen) - spent 30m in a queue with Southern Water and explained everything.

"We'll be there in 3-5 days"

Well that wasn't the outcome I wanted.

"Well my pregnant wife needs water, and it's leaking into our floor causing damage. It's a mains leak. You need to come sort it out now."

They turned up 2 hours later to fix it (We also had to get an emergency plumber..)

Southern Water may be a sketchy AF company, but when they're needed they turn up -- Our actual external stopcock valve was broken and they fixed it on the spot.

That was fun.

 

[MYstIC G]

Had a mains water leak (Under the stopcock in our kitchen) - spent 30m in a queue with Southern Water and explained everything.

"We'll be there in 3-5 days"

Well that wasn't the outcome I wanted.

"Well my pregnant wife needs water, and it's leaking into our floor causing damage. It's a mains leak. You need to come sort it out now."

They turned up 2 hours later to fix it (We also had to get an emergency plumber..)

Southern Water may be a sketchy AF company, but when they're needed they turn up -- Our actual external stopcock valve was broken and they fixed it on the spot.

That was fun.

Because they're legally obligated to, you'd be on bottled water for a week if you hadn't used your squirt gun on your missus